"By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom."
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"By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom."
"The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it."
"A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew."
"Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing."
"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."
"The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work."
"Wisdom sails with wind and time."
"Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come."
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time."
"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world."
"I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow."
"Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed."
"Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disadvantage, and that gap continues to widen. By the time they are in fourth grade, many cannot do math or read at grade level."
"It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect that our time will sustain itself if we don't do a better job on issues like education... It's absolutely the case that the low cost of college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid I was able to receive made my education possible."
"I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens."
"One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed."
"I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture."
"To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education."
"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure."
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